⁴⁴ And Pilate wondered if he were already dead; and summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he was already dead.^{[a] 45} And when he learned from the centurion that he was dead, he granted the body to Joseph. ⁴⁶ And he bought a linen shroud, and taking him down, wrapped him in the linen shroud, and laid him in a tomb which had been hewn out of the rock; and he rolled a stone against the door of the tomb.